A memorial plaque on house No. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Shenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the U

A memorial plaque on house No. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Shenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the USA in 1893, when they were 15 and 12 years old. At first the Schencks sold newspapers and worked in a pharmacy, then owned an amusement park and a chain of cinemas. In the 1920s the younger brother headed the Metro Goldwyn Mayer corporation, while the elder headed the 20th Century Fox corporation and became one of the founders of the American Film Academy

Report a translation error

September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

A memorial plaque on house No. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Shenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the U

Read more

September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s